This is a 1906 Model Swiss Commercial Luger, with
a 120mm pencil thin 7.65mm barrel built by DWM (Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken)
in Berlin and delivered to the Swiss in 1922. This is the new model frame without a
stock lug and displays the smaller trigger guard and the narrow
trigger along with the flat breech block and self-retaining extractor.
(661)

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In
1922 the Swiss Contracted with DWM for a small lot of 7.65mm, Lugers with
the 120mm barrel and grip safety. One would ordinarily confuse these
with all the other contract guns except for the fact that these 1922 DWM
Swiss Contract Lugers were in the 80000-89999 range. These guns were
manufactured in Berlin and delivered to the Swiss Bern factory.
Characteristics including the serial number are the long receivers, DWM
style grips, the Swiss Cross in Sunburst and absence of the military
proofs.

The DWM Monogram (Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken AG) on the 1st
toggle link and the Swiss Cross in Sunburst over the Chamber. There
are no proof marks other than the Swiss Cross that appears on the left
side of the barrel; two digits of the serial number are on the rear toggle link
along with the "U" sight.The finish is 99% Blued and
99% straw blued and
model has a hold open latch. This Luger has
all matching numbers.

Serial number placement is in the commercial ("hidden") style.
The serial number appears on the front of the frame, on the bottom of the
locking bolt, on the trigger, on the bottom of the barrel, and on
the bottom of the side plate.

The period of this Lugers delivery was
during the tenure of Colonel Mühlemann but the military proofs do not show
up on the receiver. This is one of the first clues to making the gun
a commercial version.

The very last of the DWM produced Swiss
Lugers were produced in 1923 and these are in the 90000 serial range.
1923 is the year that Georg Luger died and 1923 was the last year that
Deutsche Waffen-und-Munitionsfabriken existed before being taken over in
1924 by Berlin-Karlsruher Industrie-Werke-Aktiengesellschaft (BKIW) and
all Lugers were manufactured with only four digit serial numbers.
This was the last order until 1931 when Mauser filled the final order.
The 1923 DWM/Swiss Luger is extremely rare because of the very few
delivered.

The Swiss
Geneva Cross appears only once on the left side of the barrel. There
are no DWM export proof marks normally found on export guns and the rear
sight has been changed from the standard "V" to the Swiss "U" shape.

While not specifically identified by "Bobba"
in his book Parabellum the circle "N" is most likely a Swiss Inspectors
proof mark.

From the serial number on the frame it
suspected this Luger started out a "708" and when the order was accepted
the commercial 5 digit number was added and then carried to the barrel and
all the other serial numbered parts. Below: This Luger is very
clean and well maintained.

Early models
were rust blued, a very time consuming process. Once the gun was assembled
and inspected it was then disassembled, polished and the bluing process
begun. These guns have the deep rich color of the blue.

One of the features of this gun is the non-standard '06
front target sight.

The Grip
Safety is the wider version that was an adjustment from the 1900 models.

DWM manufactured the rear toggle with
the "V" rear sight. Beginning in the 1900 series the Swiss began to
modify the rear sight by opening it up to a "U" configuration.

Those so modified by the Bern plant from
Lugers supplied "in the white" from DWM never showed the spot bluing from
those modified in local armories.

The rear sight of this Luger still shows
the witness mark of the original "V" machining. The fact that the front
sight is changed from the standard and the rear site is modified further
indicates this was a special order Luger for a Swiss shooter.

The Swiss were the first
to adopt the Luger for military use. On May 4th, 1900 the Swiss Parliament
adopted the Federal Military Department's request for the adoption of the
Borchart-Luger (as it was then known), The Armée began issue in 1901
with guns supplied by DWM. DWM also found the Swiss commercial
market to be lucrative as the testing of 1899-1900 included several
military school and shooting clubs so the weapon was becoming well known
even then.

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percentages of color, bluing, or use.

There are those that hold that the wood
bottoms with the discs are only Swiss military but they were available
from DWM until 1923 and a lot of people just got them to dress up the gun.
They are entirely non-functional.